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Some veterans of Viet Nam and earlier wars were especially vehement in their response to the Calley verdict. In St. John, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. Robert Whitaker, 75, and a World War I veteran, flew his American flag upside down and at half-staff. In Cushing, Okla., two veterans of both World War II and Korea tried to surrender to police for their own war crimes. Said one of them, Stanley Gertner, a former Marine master sergeant: "If this man is guilty, he is guilty for the same thing we did. We shot up villages under orders...
...serving a three-and-one-half-year sentence for destroying draft files. Brought from Danbury "Correctional Institute" to testify as a character witness for Joe Gilchrist, who was a student at Cornell during Berrigan's chaplaincy there, the priest was on the stand for three hours. Over the frequent vehement objections of Walford, who was openly outraged that Berrigan should even be there to testify, "Father Dan" forcefully and movingly related to the court the content of frequent conversations he had with Joe during the two years they were together in Ithaca. He told of the experience of seeking shelter...
These are all characterizes that, unfortunately, the handful of almost distraught guys who created last Saturday's "riotchka" have not learned. That night it was simple to grasp how a fellow like Lenin could get so vehement over political mistakes that he would go home to write his Collected Works. In contrast to the Old Mole. Juche and other radicals who went out of their way to ease the situation, a collective or two persisted in stirring something up from a near-vacuum. Should a similar situation recur, such groups might best be sternly isolated and restrained and confronted with...
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls carries a vehement prologue stating that it is not actually a sequel to the original; indeed, the film makers have used the salable title merely as a point of departure for their own individualistic assault on good taste. The plot defies both credulity and synopsis, but has generally to do with the adventures of an all-girl rock trio called the Carrie Nations as they slither from one bed to another on the road to fame in Hollywood. The direction by Skin Flick Impresario Russ Meyer (TIME, June 13, 1969) is full of sexual...
Despite the Pentagon's painstaking precautions, Oregon Governor Tom McCall was aghast. Unlike the Okinawans, he recognized that transporting the nerve gas is far more dangerous than storing it. Citizen protest in Washington and Oregon was quick and vehement: a petition to stop the shipment collected 200,000 signatures; various groups staged "die-ins" to simulate the effects of the gas. As a last-ditch effort, McCall and Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington sued to block the shipment in U.S. district court. Late last month, President Nixon canceled the plan...